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Ross Old Book Shop, Wye, Herefordshire. Ross Old Book & Print Shop is a traditional second-hand and antiquarian bookshop.
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— by Ulisses Perez
MY TWO FAVOURITE DC WOMEN EVER OF ALL TIME
+ babs gordon BUT MOSTLY SHAYERA AND DIANA
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The Waterfall and the World at Night
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Vetter (Nuits sacrées)
Before I become completely bent on rewriting and recrafting Black Mask & Pale Rider, hellishly so in fact, I need to really concentrate on ignoring what I have come to call the Four Distractions.
The work area is set. I’m feeling the need to recraft the story of Black Mask & Pale Rider.
Originally printed in The Outlook weekly newspaper as an open editorial, May 9, 2013.
At one time, not long ago, the biggest insult you could call a comic book collector was “nerd”. Anything nerdy was to be seen in a negative light. I got that a few times when I was a kid, it happens. And I will be the first to admit, I was quite nerdy in my youth and still am today. Only now I wear it with a bit of pride.
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Previously, on Star Trek Ocelot….
Time takes it’s toll as the U.S.S. Ocelot joins the U.S.S. Farpoint and the U.S.S. Merrimack as they confront a Borg cube. To add to their dire situation, a Klingon Puyjaq Raptor decloaks. Will they join the battle against the Borg, or engage the Starfleet ships?
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Forward: this is completely fanfiction and has been written purely for entertainment purposes. I do not lay any claim to the events and persons in the Star Trek Universe, however, I did create the characters found herein based on existing species found in Star Trek. This is presented purely for entertainment purposes. This is presented as it was written in its first draft.
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Because I feel like it, I plan on writing some fanfiction in the upcoming days.
The Rocket Fox: Flight of the Nighthawk Word Cloud. Click here to embiggen.
Rocket Fox: Flight of the Nighthawk is completed in first draft and you can download it in PDF format.
The series in full is available, plus information on the upcoming series; Rocket Fox: Pau Theta II.
Not only that, but the series that kicked it all off, the old Swift Fox and the Pirates of the Jackai, which has been tentatively renamed Rocket Fox: The Barrow’s Revenge.
For those who downloaded the full series PDF, you’ll notice at the end of the book there are five chapters to an appendix which describes the world (and star system) the people of Rocket Fox live in. Religions, politics, slang terms, life styles, and species. For those who didn’t, however, here is the world building guide, chapter by chapter.
Rocket Fox - Appendix One | Rocket Fox - Appendix Two | Rocket Fox - Appendix Three
Rocket Fox - Appendix Four | Rocket Fox - Appendix Five
These guides will be in each series, describing new slang terms as they crop up, new planets, new ships, new species, new cities, and new cultures. Once each book is complete, each new appendix will be posted here. With the completion of the entire series, a full PDF download of the entire appendix will be made available.
My 12 year old self would be really excited.
My 12 year old self would also be really impatient, because while this first series which has become a book (or, is in the process of becoming a book), it’s not done. There’s a second series coming which will go through just as much work as this first one. Well, not as much work. Most of the ground work has already been laid. In truth, while the first book started in November of 2012, the ground work started in November of 2010 when I wrote Swift Fox and the Pirates of the Jackai. That was a NaNoWriMo project, and elements of that story will see the light of day in this revamp of the series.
One could even say that the ground work was set in motion over 30 years ago, when my 12 year old self made the star system and many of the species that are encounter in Rocket Fox. At the time, mind you, the Vulpine were called Foxian. I think the change in name is much better. For the longest time, each planet and species was in the same star system, but again, that’s all changed with this new series (and the many hours watching talks on Youtube by Neil deGrasse Tyson about star systems, learning about habitable zones, reading about new interstellar discoveries and watching copious amounts of Star Trek and playing Star Trek Online).
Naturally, my 12 year old self would want pictures in the book, because while I’m an adult and read novels and wrote this as a novel, my 12 year old self was still reading some of the Wind In The Willows, Watership Down and other books that had pictures before each chapter. Which, I will be attempting. It’s been a long time since I drew anything, and to be honest, I could be lazy and just pay someone to draw different pictures before each chapter or character sketches, but part of my wants to do it all myself. Though, I’ll not say no if anyone wishes to draw them for me.
The work is not done, but at least I am safe in the knowledge that the first step was taken, and it went well. There’s still editing that needs to be done and a couple of rewrites, all the while I’ll be setting up the scenes and writing them out for series two (which will eventually become book two).
My 12 year old self would be really excited.
The first series is now complete. After a couple of years of writing, plotting, world building, and setting up several different stories (even Swift Fox is one of those stories), the entire thing is available for download.
Rocket Fox: Flight of the Nighthawk
Vulpinia Prime. A utopian paradise on the edge of the Lupine Sector of Space. The third planet of the Vulpine Star System, her inhabitants take to heart their age old adage that they are meant to protect the sector from any and all threats. For many, it is an honour to be chosen at the many Academies of science, engineering, mathematics and even the famed military colleges that dot the planet. Rarely has there been a serious threat which the Royal Vulpine Armada has had need to deal with. But Article 16 of the Space Exploration Charter is there for a reason. And for many of the cadets at the Chattingham Academy, they are soon going to find out why.
Rocket Fox - Chapter One | Rocket Fox - Chapter Two | Rocket Fox - Chapter Three
Rocket Fox - Chapter Four | Rocket Fox - Chapter Five | Rocket Fox - Chapter Six
Rocket Fox - Chapter Seven | Rocket Fox - Chapter Eight | Rocket Fox - Chapter Nine
Rocket Fox - Chapter Ten | Rocket Fox - Chapter Eleven | Rocket Fox - Chapter Twelve
Rocket Fox - Chapter Thirteen | Rocket Fox - Chapter Fourteen | Rocket Fox - Chapter Fifteen
Rocket Fox - Chapter Sixteen | Rocket Fox - Chapter Seventeen | Rocket Fox - Chapter Eighteen
The Full Series - Rocket Fox - Flight of the Nighthawk
The Final Chapter!
The crew has boarded.
The mission is clear.
The Nighthawk prepares to launch.
To be continued in Rocket Fox: Pau Theta II
It is an awesome pic. And I’m not being vain either, it’s awesome and awe inspiring just how thick and fat a pile of papers with words strung together into coherent sentences that make up a whole narrative really can be. I looked at that pile three times and had to ask “I really did that” a few times before it finally sunk in. The work’s not done yet, however!
Thank you very much. It’s a lot of hard work, and a lot of times I get dejected when I write because I wonder if it’s worth it. But the end result (or in this case, the end result of stage one) helps me realize how worth it getting a story onto paper really is.
There it is. The entire thing printed out so I can read through it and make notes for the second draft.
And oh, will there be notes.
